A director has been picked to direct Kevin Spacey in the forthcoming London staging of The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic Theatre, according to Variety. Jerry Zaks, a big name on Broadway but somewhat less well-known in Britain, has signed up to mount the May 3–July 23 run.

Jerry Zaks, with Barbara Cook
Photo by Aubrey Reuben

It’s the first show that Spacey will act in for his new Old Vic company, though he’s set to take the director’s chair himself for Maria Goos’ play Cloaca (previews begin Sept. 16 prior to an official opening Sept. 28). The Oscar-winning actor’s co-star for Philadelphia is not yet known, though Variety pegs Helen Hunt, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow as all rumored to be in the frame. At a press conference earlier this year, Spacey kept his options wide open, saying that it might be a big star or an unknown.